RE: MobileOK scheme

If I understand Chaals correctly, there may be an interesting point here.

Consider our own situation: Someone using a MobileAware technology will be able to deliver a mobile experience that takes advantage of device capabilities because we know of all these capabilities, and making use of this knowledge is what our technology does. So generally, could a site built with our technology be thought of as mobileOK, given that in almost all cases we would be delivering something that goes beyond the minimum demanded by mobileOK?

The phrase: "[...] content providers, as well as targeting DDC level devices, will wish also to provide non-mobileOK experiences for more advanced mobile devices" could be interpreted to mean that our technology is not producing mobileOK content, and so a site using our technology could be labelled as non-mobileOK. We'd be rather sad if that turned out to be the case.

Of course, I think know what the group is really trying to say here. I think you are saying that mobileOK content is what you are required to offer in the absence of any reliable evidence of the requesting device, but in all other cases you are free to "improve" upon mobileOK without losing that important label of being a mobileOK site.

Perhaps what needs to be done is to provide a clear distinction between 1) mobileOK content and 2) a site that offers mobileOK content. A site only needs to offer mobileOK content in the absence of any reliable evidence of the device making the request. When reliable evidence is present, it should either offer the same mobileOK content, or do something better with whatever device information it has available to it. In the end, it's the user experience that matters.

---Rotan.

-----Original Message-----
From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jo Rabin
Sent: 09 June 2009 19:55
To: Charles McCathieNevile; Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG
Subject: RE: MobileOK scheme

I don't think I am clear exactly what your point is.

Are you saying that experiences that take advantage of higher device capabilities are not necessarily non mobileOK? Surely, if the higher tier experiences are mobileOK they'd also be provided to the lower-tier devices?

Perhaps this might be a cause of misunderstanding though, and would it be better if we said:

It is expected that content providers, as well as targetting DDC level devices, will wish also to provide experiences that are not necessarily mobileOK for more advanced mobile devices.

?

Jo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-bpwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-bpwg-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Charles McCathieNevile
> Sent: 09 June 2009 19:05
> To: Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group WG
> Subject: MobileOK scheme
> 
> In the section on DDC it says
> 
> "The DDC is thus not a target to aspire to, it merely sets a base line
> below which content providers do not need to provide their content. It
> is
> expected that content providers, as well as targetting DDC level
> devices,
> will wish also to provide non-mobileOK experiences for more advanced
> mobile devices."
> 
> As I understand the Best Practices, they actually recommend providing
> an
> experience for non-DDC devices which takes advantage of their ability
> to
> do more than DDC - in other words, using the additional capabilities of
> more powerful browsers while ensuring that a DDC (or unknown device)
> gets
> content that meets the lowest level of requirements is in line with
> MobileOK, rather than being non-mobileOK as the draft suggests.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Chaals
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 10:35:21 UTC